. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . shoofs, and running twenty or thirty miles before it ftopsor taices the water. The ufual time for this diverfion isin winter. The animal can run with eafe upon the firmfurface of the fnow ; but the hunters avoid entering onthe chafe till the heat of the fun is llrong enough to meltthe frozen cruft with which it is covered, and renderit fo foft as to impede the flight of the Moofe, which 124 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. finks up to the fhoulders, flounders, and gets on withgreat difficulty: The fportfman purfues in his broad-racket9&g
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . shoofs, and running twenty or thirty miles before it ftopsor taices the water. The ufual time for this diverfion isin winter. The animal can run with eafe upon the firmfurface of the fnow ; but the hunters avoid entering onthe chafe till the heat of the fun is llrong enough to meltthe frozen cruft with which it is covered, and renderit fo foft as to impede the flight of the Moofe, which 124 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. finks up to the fhoulders, flounders, and gets on withgreat difficulty: The fportfman purfues in his broad-racket9> or fnow-fhoes, and nwkes a ready prey of thediftrefled animal. As weak againft the mountain-heaps they jmlh Thtir beating breafls in vain, and piteous bray, He lays them quivring on th enfanguind fnows, And with loud fliouts rejoicing bears them home. The female is lefs than the male, and has no are in feafon in the autumn; and bring forth inApril, fometimes one, but generally two young ones ata time, which arrive at their full growth in fix years^. HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 125
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